Thursday, May 20, 2010

Saturated Testing

Nice post from Rikard Edgren. If additional testing in an area doesn’t give any important, new information, and is it worth the effort? I have found situations in which additional testing would not change the outcome, but not very often.

Perhaps a more interesting question from agile perspective is "will adding additional tests here increase or decrease the total utility of my automated testing suite?"

If adding a set of tests to your automated unit tests make it too long (long enough that developers won't run them as often?), then maybe it would decrease the total utility of your test suite

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